I view Language Arts as the essential element to all education. By empowering students to write, speak, listen, question, and view critically, I equip them with the tools to become independent life-long learners. This is accomplished in my classroom through independent study, cooperative learning, guided small group lessons, and partner work. Differentiation is the hallmark of literary development. In my classroom, individual instructional needs guides my teaching.

I believe it is imperative that students develop literacy skills utilizing multiple literary mediums, such as: poetry books, newspapers, novels, picturebooks, online articles, online editorials, film, graphic novels, and nonfictional essays. In addition, "technological literacy" is a skill that our 21st learners are and will be responsible for to solve problems that involve critical thinking. By being literate in technology, students will be more successful in this endeavor.

Language Arts develops children to be able to think logically and creatively, which is ever necessary in the future to, through, and beyond college. Literacy, to me, is the ability to think, as well as knowing how to acquire knowledge for thinking and communicating.